Improvement in combined pastry-tables and refrigerators



H. MAGEE.

Combined Pastry-Table and Refrigerator.

N0.l62,566 Patented Apri|27,1875

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UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE.

HENRY MAGEE, OF SOUTH BOSTON, MASSACHUSETTS.

IMPROVEMENT IN COMBINED PASTRYTABLES AND REFRIGERATORS.

Specification forming part of Letters Patent No. 162,566, dated April27, 1875; application filed March 24, 1875.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, HENRY MAGEE, of South Boston, of the county ofSuffolk and State of Massachusetts, have invented a new and usefulImprovement in Pastry Tables or Oommodes; and do hereby declare the sameto be fully described in the following specification and represented inthe accompanying drawings, of which- Figure l is a front elevation, andFig. 2 atransverse section, of one of myimproved ta bles' andpastry-preserving commodes. Fig. 3 is a horizontal section, takenthrough its iceholder. Fig. 4 is a vertical and longitudinal section ofit, taken through the educt and hinge-pipe of its ice holder.

In such drawings, A denotes a cabinet, open on its front, and thereprovided with one or more doors,- B B, to close the opening. Thiscabinet has a stone or marble top, a, and is divided horizontally, byone or more. partitions, 1) 1), into two or more compartments, each ofsaid partitions having one or more holes, 0, leading down through it. Inthe upper compartment, or that directly underneath the'stone or marbletop a, is an ice-holder drawer or tray, O, formed as represented, andfastened, near its right-hand anterior corner, to the upper end of acylindrical vertical pipe, D, which opens out of the iceholder and goesdown loosely through the several partitions I) to the bottom of thecabinet or table. This pipe not only constitutes an educt for water andan induct for air, but answers as a hinge or pivot for the ice-box,whose left end is arched as shown at i, with a radius whose center iscoincident with the axis of the pipe. The said ice-box I make of wood,and usually line it with a metallic plate, and from the air-space f,contiguous to its curved end i, I make one or more passages g, to leaddown through the partition b, on which the said holder rests.

W'hen charged with ice, the holder serves to cool and keep cool themarble tOp of the table and pastry or dough while being worked thereon.It also answers to cool and keep cool the air between the partitions orbelow the upper one, and thus to preserve from decomposition in warmweather any dough, pastry or other matters that may be placed on thepartitions or in drawers, trays, or plates laid thereon.

In the lower department I prefer to placea drawer, E. By having theice-holder formed and applied to the table or cabinet in manner asdescribed, such holder becomes pivoted to the cabinet, so as to beeasily drawn out therefrom for being cleaned or supplied with ice. Bythe ice-holder being fastened directly to the pipe, so that the latterturns with it, we avoid all danger of leakage at the joint, that wouldbe likely to follow were the pipe stationary and the ice-holder turnedon it as a pivot.

WVhatIclaim in the above-described pastry table or commode is- 1. Theice-holder O, and its vertical pivotal drip-pipe D, fastened together,and applied to the partitioned cabinet A, viz, so that the pipe shallturn with the ice-holder therein, and answer the purposes of a pivotthereto.

2. In combination with the stone top a and the ice-holder O, curved onone end i, as shown, the cabinet A, provided with one or more passagesor holes, 9, leading from the space f, contiguous to such end, to thecoin partment next beneath that in which the iceholder is placed, allbeing as represented.

HENRY MAGEE.

Witnesses: I I

R. H. EDDY, J. R. Snow.

